Melanie Breault

Communications Associate

Melanie.B@anhd.org

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212-747-1117, ext. 15

Melanie Breault is the Communications Associate at the Association for Neighborhood & Housing Development (ANHD). She handles all internal and external communications needs for ANHD and offers help and guidance for its member groups and coalitions. She also serves on the boards of CityLimits and the New York City chapter of Women, Action & The Media (WAM!NYC). She spends her free time working on the website, Progressive City: Radical Alternatives, writing about women’s health issues, and walking her German Shepherd mix Clarkson through the park in Brooklyn. You can see samples of her photography and communications work on her website.

Earlier this week, Trump proposed a federal budget that would devastate low- and moderate-income communities across the country, including in New York State. Trump’s proposals for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) include both budget cuts and rule changes that would increase housing cost burdens on many of the poorest New Yorkers, while continuing disinvestment in public housing, reducing Section 8 voucher availability, and eviscerating basic Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) functions like code enforcement.

Communities are paying close attention these days to exactly what kind of affordable housing is being promised to their neighborhood because they want to ensure that the housing is really meeting the greatest local and city need.

Two weeks ago, ANHD put out an infographic comparing the affordable housing created and preserved under the de Blasio administration’s Housing New York Plan to the real needs of New York City’s residents.